Showers was visiting his wife, Anna, on Nov. 14 and left the facility around 6 p.m., according to a Nov. 23 report from Oconee County Coroner Karl Addis. Surveillance video showed him walking through an upper parking lot of the center at 6:04 p.m..

At 6:50 p.m., the elderly man was found unresponsive at the edge of Houston Rice Road near the rehab center. His vehicle was still parked, Addis' report said.

Investigators determined at the time that Showers had been struck in a hit-and-run collision.

He was initially treated at Oconee Memorial Hospital before being transferred to Greenville Memorial Hospital.

According to his death notice, Showers was born in Jersey Shore, Pennsylvania, and was a U.S. Navy veteran of World War II. He retired from the Lycoming Division of Textron in 1984.